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The NS Whale Hunters of Stevist Guam is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Greatkitteh with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 11.411 billion Stevists are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Welfare and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of PlayPen. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Stevist Guamian economy, worth a remarkable 5,332 trillion Roqs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 467,282 Roqs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

It's been a banner year for local vexillology, a new generation of aquariumless hotels are being built under government supervision, foreign lack of enthusiasm for Stevist Guamian nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli, and getting your license is a rite of passage for young adults. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Stevist Guam's national animal is the Kangaroo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Stevism.

Stevist Guam is ranked 1,148^th in the world and 30^th in the Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 125.08 flags saluted per person per day.